Quotes by Richard Serra - Page 1

To see is to think, and to think is to see.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
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Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Art
Democratic
People
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Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Work Out
Anybody
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I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Advertising
Firsts
Lunch
Wilder
Billy
Out Here
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They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Decided
Content
Sexual
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But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Mind
Particular
Thinking
Viewer
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The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Home
Bay Area
Coming Back
Coming Home
Home Me Back
Bay
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I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Bethlehem
Steel
Summer
Summers
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Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Lightness
Unbearable
Weight
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Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Eye
Muscles
Shapes
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Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Architecture
Ideas
Sculptors
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I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Different
People
Thinking
Work Problems People
Different People
Exhibition
Relations
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The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Book
Ifs
Masters
Master
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I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Following
Not Interested
People
Thinking
Work People Like
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But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Characteristics
Formal
Landscape
Site
Trying
Immerse
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I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Analysis
Calm
World
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Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Gestalt
Priorities
Reading
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On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Capes
Core
Hands
Sea
All My Life
Life Poetry My Life
Cape
Underlying
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I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Action
Catalogues
Walking
Catalogue
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I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Space
Sculpture
Use
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Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Relation
Thinking
Trying
Walking Away
Engage
Overly
Heavy-Handed
Viewer
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I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Space
Order
Relation
Thinking
Space Always Where
Articulate
Boundary
Context
Interact
Viewer
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What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Opportunity
Space
Different
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It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
People
Sculpture
Want
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Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Disease
Guy
Sexuality
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Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Administrators
Disease
Homosexuality
Sexuality
Taboo
Content
Deciding
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Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Art
Ingredients
Play
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And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Mean
Ought
Sculpture
Way
Disastrous
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If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Aesthetic
Fields
Misused
People
Urban
Way
Day People Every Day
Acknowledging
Day People Way
Confront
Provide
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Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Art
Determination
People
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But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Clouds
Consideration
Path
Play
Streams
Cloud
Cover
How Much
Paths
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Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with - not only sight and boundary, but how one walks through a piece, and what one feels and registers in terms of one's own body in relation to another body.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Movement
Pieces
Sight
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If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Deception
Planes
Sculpture
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If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Different
Passing On
Real
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When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Art
Bridges
Way
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But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Art
Effort
Mean
Notion
Thinking
Art Work Me
Broadening
Experiences
Sustained
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The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Expansion
Moving
Perception
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Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.
Richard Serra / Sculptor
Axes
Perception
Sculpture
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